[Gumstix-users] Discussion

[Gordon K. <go...@gu...>]

Thank you all very much for your perspectives and feedback.

I will publish a list of stuff we're working on.  For the most part, I should say we've been spending most of our time making sure
the product is stable and that there really is a platform here for the long-run.  And that has been "details, details, details ..."
I really appreciate all the work Craig has done pulling together the development environment.

The fun part for me on the hardware side has been developing a system for assembling pseudo-custom buddy-boards on short order.  I
have been working on several subsets of the target "wish-list" so we can begin to offer a wide range of inexpensive daughtercards.
We will make available one new daughtercard pretty soon: a USB-powered gumstix-sized board with 20 pads on it for breakout.
Officially, the PXA255 does NOT support being powered by a USB host; however, it has been a huge request and is easy to do.  The
problem lies in losing enumeration when told to sleep.  Nevertheless-- it's a pretty cool way to plug a headless-system into your
host for development.

On the gumstix front: the gumstix-f is stable, and we are working on the next generation, which will offer address and data bus
access.  It's in the lab ["gumstix-g"] and no, it is not ready for release and there are no dates set yet.  But yes, the 60-pin
connector and the form-factor are unchanged.

And finally, after 7 months, I've put a new picture up on the http://www.gumstix.org site.  Ready for clustering?

Gordon